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Boxed in : making identities safe for democracy / Derrick Darby and Eduardo J. Martinez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darby, Derrick, 1967- author.
- Martinez, Eduardo J., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity.
- Political sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Our lives take shape around identities. Race, religion, sexual orientation, and other collective identities impose scripts that dictate how we should think, act, and associate. African Americans should support reparations and affirmative action. Evangelical Christians should associate with true believers and feel outraged by same sex-marriage. Gays and lesbians should come out and engage in LBGTQ+ activism. When identities are scripted too tightly, we get boxed in and democracy suffers. In 'Boxed In', philosophers Derrick Darby and Eduardo J. Martinez diagnose the profound challenge that inflexible identities pose for democracy and offer a novel prescription that involves taking up civic responsibilities to search for, make visible, and attend to group differences in background, perspective, and empowerment.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Mr. March On Washington
- Rustin's Dilemma
- The Plan
- Part I How Do We Get Boxed In?
- 1 Boxed In
- Caged Bird
- Rappers and Punks
- Fútbol Fans
- Trans Soldiers and Black Writers
- Christian Conservatives and Criminal Justice
- Boxed In: A Taxonomy
- How Bird Broke Free
- 2 Identity Trouble
- Friends and Enemies
- Winners and Losers
- Signals Without Solutions
- The People? Which People?
- Skeptics and Optimists
- Shared Goals
- Is Unity All We Need?
- Mapping the Trouble
- Part II What Do We Need to Break Free?
- 3 How Identity Works
- Collective Identities
- An Illuminating Taxonomy
- Labeling
- Identification
- Treatment-As
- Taking Heterogeneity Seriously
- Looking Ahead
- 4 Collective Self-Authorship Processes
- My Projects Are Our Projects
- Shared Projects, Group Differences
- Flexibility and Restrictiveness
- Taking Control of the Script
- Accountability Mechanisms
- Accountability Chains
- What About Intersectionality?
- Intersectional Tight Scripts
- How to Break Free
- Part III How Do We Break Free?
- 5 Micropolitics
- Responsibilities of Collective Self-Authorship
- Environmentalists and Wyoming Ranchers
- Toxic Avengers Need Allies
- Searching for Mules and Honeybees
- Educating Vegans and Carnivores
- Finding the Right Frame
- A New Ethos
- Be an Organizer, Not a Hobbyist
- 6 Macropolitics
- Scaling Up
- Climate Divisions
- The Challenge of Scaling Up
- Three Strategies for Scaling Up
- Shifting Strategies
- Unsavory Partners
- Tools for Uptake
- Keeping the Background in View
- Embracing the Challenge
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 27, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-762023-X
- 0-19-762021-3
- OCLC:
- 1428141309
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